Christian Traugott Otto

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Christian Traugott Otto (born November 11, 1791 in Leisnig ; † February 2, 1874 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator .

Photograph by Christian Traugott Otto around 1850

Life

Christian Traugott Otto was born in Leisnig as the son of the combsetter Christian Gottlob Otto and Johanna Rosina Arnold. In 1817 Otto married Auguste Louise Hacker, a daughter of the first court preacher in Dresden, Johann Georg August Hacker, in the Sophienkirche in Dresden . From this marriage a daughter and four sons were born.

From 1816 Otto was a hospital preacher in Pirna and a preacher at Zehista . From 1818 to 1862 he was director of the royal Saxon teachers' college in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . During his tenure, the seminar was increasingly confronted with criticism. The educational institution was assumed to have too harsh a tone with exaggerated discipline and rigid Protestant ways of thinking, as deputy director August Beger explained in more detail in a statement. Overall, Otto took a rather conservative course. He firmly opposed the separation of church and school.

Otto is best known for the publication of the series Der Sächsische Kinderfreund. A reader for city and country schools , as well as for the publication of the magazine Sächsischer Volksschulfreund together with Gotthilf Ferdinand Döhner, official minister in Freiberg and former teacher of the composer Robert Schumann .

Works (selection)

  • Reading book for the second level of reading students (1823)
  • The Catholic and Protestant or the Most Excellent Faith Truths in Which the Catholic Church Deviates from the Protestant (1826)
  • What do we want to wish our children on the day of the confirmation? A sermon on Sunday Palmarum given by CT Otto (1828)
  • History and constitution of the school and the school teacher seminar in Friedrichstadt-Dresden (1828)
  • Against the emancipation of the elementary school (1834)
  • The school and the school teacher seminar in Friedrichstadt-Dresden / from 1785–1835; together with a description of the 50th anniversary celebration and your list of all of the seminary's students (1836)
  • Biblical Stories of the Old and New Testaments (With factual explanations). Published by Christian Traugott Otto (1837)
  • Brief religious teaching / For Protestant schools (1844)
  • The Saxon child friend / a reading book for city and country schools (different years)
  • Saxon elementary school friend. A magazine for those who belong to the elementary school teacher class or who take part in the elementary school system in general. Edited by Christian Traugott Otto and Gotthilf Ferdinand Döhner (various years)

literature

  • Andreas Räß , Georg Scheiblein: The Catholic; A religious instructional and warning journal. Volume 14, Volume 4, pp. 86–99, Strasbourg, 1824.
  • Heidelberg Yearbooks of Literature . Volume 2, pp. 1049, 1826. ( online in the Google book search)
  • Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . Number 101, pp. 321–326, 1827. ( online in the Google book search)
  • Saxony's church gallery . Volume 1, parts 1–37, Dresden, 1837. ( online in the Google book search)
  • Hans-Martin Moderow: Elementary school between state and church. The example of Saxony in the 18th and 19th centuries. Volume 25 from History and Politics in Saxony , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11706-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ marriage register no. 2 of the year 1817. Dresden registry office. Status: 1936.
  2. ↑ Christian Traugott Otto , in: Johann Baptist Heindl (Hrsg.): Gallery of famous pedagogues, honored school men, youth and folk writers and composers from the present in biographies and biographical sketches. 1st volume. Finsterlin: Munich 1859, p. 69 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  3. ^ August Beger: Critical illumination of the allegations made to the school teacher seminar in Friedrichstadt-Dresden . Dresden, 1833. (online)
  4. ^ Gotthilf Ferdinand Döhner , website of the Schumann portal. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ Christian Traugott Otto on journals @ UrMEL , Internet portal of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Christian Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Quietly
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1874
Place of death Dresden